Reality vs. TV: 'Survivor'

Photo/CBS Illustration/Sean Cooley

Real: Keys to survival: eating bugs, building fires, hoarding commodities, forming a tribe, etc. Contestants are kept out of cozy hotel rooms until they are voted off the island. Unreal: Recruiting unemployed actors from California for the cast contradicts "survival of the fittest." The second castaway Richard Hatch stripped down there should have been an island revolt, put those torches to use! Verdict: 2/5 "Reality stars," unaware of that oxymoronic designation

Real: Keys to survival: eating bugs, building fires, hoarding commodities, forming a tribe, etc. Contestants are kept out of cozy hotel rooms until they are voted off the island. Unreal: Recruiting unemployed actors from California for the cast contradicts "survival of the fittest." The second castaway Richard Hatch stripped down there should have been an island revolt, put those torches to use! Verdict: 2/5 "Reality stars," unaware of that oxymoronic designation (Photo/CBS Illustration/Sean Cooley)

Real: Keys to survival: eating bugs, building fires, hoarding commodities, forming a tribe, etc. Contestants are kept out of cozy hotel rooms until they are voted off the island. Unreal: Recruiting unemployed actors from California for the cast contradicts "survival of the fittest." The second castaway Richard Hatch stripped down there should have been an island revolt, put those torches to use! Verdict: 2/5 "Reality stars," unaware of that oxymoronic designation